The flock of contentious drive-time "experts" in many cities have replaced newspaper sports columnists as the premier local journalistic celebrities.
The debate over how to improve poor urban school systems remains contentious, with some experts and reformers advocating teacher tenure reform, others arguing that tenure is not as significant an obstacle to student achievement as its critics contend.
Despite the agreement, the issue of international adoption will continue to be contentious here in Russia, experts said.
The findings addressed a long-contentious question among animal experts: is animal behavior determined only by genes and individual learning, or can animals, like humans, learn socially?
On Thursday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a public roundtable to solicit ideas from banks, academics and other experts on the contentious rule, which seeks to ban banks from making risky bets with their own money.
During that period he became a contentious figure among arms control experts because the agency, which regularly inspected Iraqi nuclear programs and fuel stockpiles, was accused of failing to detect a secret weapons program that did not come to light until after the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf.
Framing theory is particularly well-suited to the study of overdiagnosis because it allows for a detailed examination of different viewpoints held, and used, by experts about this contentious topic.
"She's helped shape national policy and appeared in contentious court battles as an expert witness.
Bordering on Confusion 04 January 2013 High-skill immigration reform is more complicated and contentious than it looks, an expert conference shows.
Cardenas, chairman of the City Council's Health Committee, wants to ban the contentious drinks first and get expert opinion later.
